11/7/2023 0 Comments Muscle shoals sound studio tours![]() The old studio has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 2006. The group closed the Jackson Highway studio in 1979, moving the operation to 1000 Alabama Avenue. Muscle Shoals Sound Studio is a recording studio in Sheffield, Alabama formed in 1969 by four session musicians called The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (and affectionately called The Swampers) who had left Rick Hall‘s nearby FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals to create their own recording facility. Here’s the part of the story that is really exciting! Fame Studios was one of the big studios in town, but there was another one! Muscle Shoals Sound Studio He gave us a personal tour of 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield Alabam, even though he was very sick at the time. ![]() We had met Greg Matthews from Legacy Music Marketing in Muscle Shoals, and he was the original owner of the Studio he was a gracious, warm, and friendly human being, and died a short time after we met. I had a wonderful afternoon getting the Fame Studios personal tour and I took these photos… the most striking thing was that the good folks at Fame had kept everything pretty much as it was – except for some technical upgrades. Will ended up as a studio session guy in Muscle Shoals, and played for everyone doing everything everywhere! When I ran into Will ten years ago in Carrboro, NC at The Music Loft – now Twin House Music – he had moved to The Piedmont and become a Preacher or a Minister-type person… good for him! Then I heard he was back in Muscle Shoals but whatever, if you run into him, don’t forget to use your best no-four-letter-words English.! Take the Tour… Amazing! I headed out to Central Square that evening and made friends with three guys rehearsing songs in a basement: Freebo, Will McFarland and I think it was Dick Waterman. When I was just starting out in Cambridge and Boston, I ran into some folks in Harvard Square who invited me to check out the back-up band for Bonnie Raitt, a local folk singer. Duane Allman had been working there as a session guy and things sort of came into orbit around him. It was the original home of the Allman Brothers Band, where they first came together as a band and had their first series of recordings. When I finished up, I swung back down to Muscle Shoals to take a look at Fame Studios, a legendary studio. I miss Tommy and Charles every day… A Look Inside Music History Norbert Putnam was the original bass player at FAME with Jerry Carrigan, David Briggs, and etc who left to go to Nashville and become Chet Atkins and RCA’s 1st call rhythm section for many years. David Hood was a Muscle Shoals institution, and one of the bass players who made Muscle Shoals what it became. ![]() While working with Tommy York, I was able to meet and cut three sessions with probably the greatest of the Muscle Shoals Bass players, the fabulous Charles Robinson. Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals Sound: Three years ago I was playing a series of shows thru Alabama, Nashville, and Mississippi and I had an opportunity to swing through Muscle Shoals, Alabama, do some recording at Tommy York Studios and then head up to Berkeley Bob’s in Culman, AL with The Spook House Saints to get a bit of E Pluribus Spookum…
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